Relational practices and reflexivity: Exploring the responses of women entrepreneurs to changing household dynamics
Relational practices and reflexivity: Exploring the responses of women entrepreneurs to changing household dynamics
This qualitative study explores how and why women, positioned as mothers, wives, or carers, navigate changing household dynamics, related to care and reproductive resources, and become entrepreneurial. Drawing on relational reflexivity, we show how women’s embodied, intimate relations with important others in the household form the focal point for entrepreneurial activities and offer evidence of their entrepreneurial agency. Our analysis reveals the emergence of three relational practices that result in a new venture as the entrepreneurial response of women. We critically evaluate normative analyses on gender, entrepreneurship, and household.
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Meliou, Eleni
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Edwards, Tim
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March 2018
Meliou, Eleni
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Edwards, Tim
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Meliou, Eleni and Edwards, Tim
(2018)
Relational practices and reflexivity: Exploring the responses of women entrepreneurs to changing household dynamics.
International Small Business Journal, 36 (2), .
(doi:10.1177/0266242617724858).
Abstract
This qualitative study explores how and why women, positioned as mothers, wives, or carers, navigate changing household dynamics, related to care and reproductive resources, and become entrepreneurial. Drawing on relational reflexivity, we show how women’s embodied, intimate relations with important others in the household form the focal point for entrepreneurial activities and offer evidence of their entrepreneurial agency. Our analysis reveals the emergence of three relational practices that result in a new venture as the entrepreneurial response of women. We critically evaluate normative analyses on gender, entrepreneurship, and household.
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Published date: March 2018
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Local EPrints ID: 499972
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/499972
ISSN: 0266-2426
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